Wall construction.



F. MOM. SAWYBB.. WALL CONSTRUCTION. APPLICATION FILED DBO. 6, 1910.

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Application To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK MCM. SAWYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have. invented certain new and useful Improvements in `Wall Construction, of which' the following is a specicat-ion.

This invention relates to improvements in wall constructions, and one of the principal objects of the same is to provide an arti- :ticial stone wall formed with -two types of bricks one of which -is the bonding brick.

Another object is to form a wall with two types of bricks laid in double rows, the alternate bricks in veach row projecting into the other row for bonding.

.A further objectis to form a wall having a double row of air passages extending from the bottom tothe top of the wall.

A still further object is to construct a wall that is strong, easy to build, and for which the cost will be low.

These objects are attained by the means illustrated in the acc mpanying drawing, in which, e

Figure l is a perspective view cfa portion of a wall'embodying the invention, and Fig. 2 is a view of two courses of the wall detached from each other.

Like reference numerals indicate the saine parts in all of the figures of the drawin The construction is formed with U-shaped bricks and blocks, veach having a back 4 and' 35 two legs 5 and 6,

and L-shaped bricks having legs 8 and 9, said last mentioned bricks being ofV a size equal to the U-shaped bricks without one of their legs.

The courses are laid in two rows l() .and ll, the two styles of bricks alternating in pla-ced, in staggered lrelation to each other, a portion of the U-shaped bricks forming a central partition throughout the length of the wall, and the in connection with. the remaining portions of said U-shaped bricks, form the outer surfaces of the wall and a series of transverse partitions, thereby forming a double rowof vertical Ventilating passages.

In alternate courses the bricks are reversed, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, arranged in staggered relation as -vbefore described, with the backs 4 of the eringthelegs 9 of the L-shaped bricks in the lower course, and with their legs '5 and 6 lying upon the legs of the under U-shaped Specification of Letters Patent. nies December 6,1910.

L-shaped bricks' continuous central surfacesof'the wall andthe backs thereof U-sha'ped bricks covsemina 595,854. f

iricks. cover the backs t of the ll-shaped bricks thereunder, and the legs-8 restupon the legs 8 of the bricks beneath-1` l .f From` the above descriptiomcit7 will be each other b v the overlapping U-shaped bricks, providing' a strong ventilated wall. It will also be observed, that the bricks in one course overlap those in the lower whereby a break of joints is secured.

Having thus fully described the invention what is claimed is I l. A wall construction, comprising shaped and L-shaped bricks placed in double rows and alternating in each row, the legs of the U-shaped bricks forming a continuous central partition and part of the surfaces of the wall and the'backs thereof torming transverse partitions, and the legs of the L-shaped bricks lling the spaces between the U-shaped bricks on the surfaces and the other portions of said Lshaped bricks forming transverse partitions in alinement with the backs of the U-shaped bricks.

2. A wall construction," comprising U- shaped and Lshaped bricks laid in double rows, said bricks in one row alternating with each other and with the bricks in the other row, the legs of the U-shapedbricks forming a continuous central partit-ion and part of the surfaces of the wall and the backs thereof forming transverse partitions, and the seen that the courses androws, are bonded to legs of the 'L-shaped bricks filling the spaces between the U-shaped bricks on the surfaces and the other portions of the L-shapedbricks forming transverse partitions in aline- Inent with the backs of the U-shaped bricks.

3. A wall construction, comprising U- shaped and L-shaped bricks laid in rows and courses, saidbricks in one row alternating Patentedfoetfs, ieri".

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with each other and with the bricks inthe I other row, and-reversed in alternate courses, the legs of the U-shaped bricks forming a partition and part of the forming transverse partit-ions, and the legs of the L-shaped bricks filling the spaces between the U-'shaped bricks on theV surfaces and the other portions of said L-'shapied' ternating with each other, with the bricks in the other. row, and with the bricks in adjacent courses, the legs of the U-shaped bricks forrnin a continuous central partition and -part o the surfaces of the wall and the '-backs thereof forming transverse partitions,

and the legs of the L-shaped bricks filling t-he spaces between thev U-shaped bricks on the .surfaces and the other portions of the L- shaped bricks forming transverse partitions in ali bricks.

A5. A wall construction, comprising U- the valternate bricks in both rows overthe legs nement with the backs of the U-shapedl of the U-shaped bricks forming a continuous central partition and part of the surfaces of the wall and the backs thereof forming transverse partitions, and the legs of the Lf shaped bricks filling the spaces between thev U-shaped' vbricks on the surfaces and the* other portions of the L-shaped bricks forms ing transverse partitions in alinernent with l the backs of the U-shaped bricks.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses. FRANK MCMURRAY SAWYER.

Witnesses:

M. STRADER, J. E. MOORE. 

